(August 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm)Shell B Wrote: I didn't even say I wanted statistics. I said massive quoting will only be feasible as "proof" if backed up by something like statistics. What I asked for was an outline leading from religion to the origins of modern science.
I don’t remember you ever asking for this outline. I would think that the actual founders of modern science’s word that it was their religious views that fueled their science should be all the proof anyone needs. Unless of course you believe they were just lying and were secretly atheists whose atheistic worldviews drove their scientific endeavors? I could see you believing something along these lines.
(August 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm)Shell B Wrote: Not a red herring, dude. I was demonstrating that statistics were used back then and as far back as the earliest civilizations.
Ok…whatever..dude. :-P I think we have beaten this dead horse enough. I will just take the founders at their own word, you can keep believing they were liars. It doesn’t make a difference to me. I just can’t believe I got the chance to use Dawkins as a source against an atheist; the universe must be out of tilt or something. :-P
